Know your priorities

Kian

“This is absurd.” Father raged.

I sigh and shift in my seat.

“You cannot break off the engagement with her. Unacceptable!”

“Look,” I clasp my hands on top of the table. “I am not…”

“Yes you are.” he states firmly.

I turn to mom. “Please tell him to let me finish.”

mother turns turns him. “Let us hear him out.”

Father grumbles,his eyes looking around the room for something to throw at me if I say one wrong word. Settling for nothing major,he grabs the glass and holds it tightly then settles his eyes on me.

“I am going to have a child.”

“Yes. Yes you are and you are-”

I clench my fists and breathe in and out. “I am not finished,pa.”

He snorts. “I do not like this conversation.”

“I got a girl pregnant.”

Mother gasps as she places her palm on her chest.

Fathers nostrils flare.

“Abort.”

“Mi amor!” mother calls out loudly.

“What? It's not like it's our business that he chose to play around and leave his sperms everywhere. Our concern is the business